Senior Software Engineer, Robinhood Command Center

Robinhood

Hybrid

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $196,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted: 4 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $213k

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About Robinhood

Robinhood is a financial technology company offering commission-free stock, ETF, options, and cryptocurrency trading through its mobile app, aimed at democratizing access to financial markets. Industry: Financial Technology & Investment App

Robinhood currently has 83 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $187,000–$220,000 across 82 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Robinhood Command Center

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As a Senior Software Engineer on Robinhood’s newly formed Command Center team in New York, you will lead the development of reliability and observability strategies across the company's infrastructure. Your daily responsibilities include coordinating incident response efforts, developing processes for efficient incident management, and creating tools to enhance monitoring and alerting systems. You will work closely with various engineering teams to ensure operational excellence and drive measurable improvements in MTTD/MTTR. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in reliability engineering, distributed systems, and hands-on leadership during incidents. Proficiency in modern observability stacks like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana is essential, along with a deep understanding of multi-region architectures and failover strategies. This role offers the opportunity to significantly impact customer experience by improving system resilience at scale.

Skills

Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Kubernetes AWS Docker CI/CD Python PostgreSQL multi-region architectures failover strategies capacity planning observability frameworks fault-tolerant architecture design MTTD MTTR

What you'll do

Serve as a senior technical leader driving long-term reliability and observability strategy.
Lead incident mitigation efforts by coordinating service owners during active incidents.
Develop and maintain incident management processes to ensure timely resolution.
Own incident discovery, defining global dashboards and alerts for critical metrics.
Drive post-incident governance, defining standards for postmortems and follow-up tracking.

What we're looking for

5+ years of software engineering experience with significant production system operation
2+ years in reliability engineering, infrastructure, distributed systems, or production operations
Hands-on incident leadership roles such as IMOC, incident commander, primary oncall
Deep knowledge of systems reliability, observability frameworks, and fault-tolerant architecture design
Experience with multi-region/multi-cluster architectures, capacity planning, failover strategies
Familiarity with modern observability stacks like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana

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